There is still more than a foot of snow on the golf course at Tulfarris and it will not be open tomorrow Sunday 12 December.

The Christmas Scramble will now take place on next Sunday 19th - weather permitting of course - registration at 9 a.m. and shotgun start at 9.30.

I hope that the severe weather has not inconvenienced you too much and hopefully we are seeing the end of it for sometime to come.

In this regard I am sure you will be like me in envying Mattie Nugent who you may know emigrated with his family to Australia in September. He is joining a golf club down there and in an email to me during the week he mentioned in passing that he had his front and back doors open to create a balmy cooling breeze through the house at 9 p.m. in the evening. The contrast!